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Noah Smith 🐇

Noah Smith 🐇

@Noahpinion

Lens Rankings

Journalism

#2 0.025919 Bloomberg Opinion
#16 0.005418 Foreign Policy
#41 0.001567 Ars Technica
#84 0.001416 Palladium Magazine
#100 0.001381 The Intercept
#156 0.000622 The Atlantic
#202 0.000699 The Dispatch
#206 0.000599 Recode
#386 0.000410 The Economist
#464 0.000020 The Information
#612 0.000167 Techcrunch
#691 0.000014 OANN
#724 0.000171 New Yorker
#744 0.000246 The New York Times
#772 0.000014 Newsmax
#903 0.000020 Stat News
#1047 0.000099 The Verge
#1090 0.000084 Washington Post
#1198 0.000025 Reuters
#1616 0.000060 The New York Post
#1792 0.000020 CNBC
#2025 0.000020 The Daily Beast
#2173 0.000068 Wall Street Journal
#2558 0.000044 VICE
#3120 0.000020 Financial Times
#3133 0.000026 The Los Angeles Times
#3220 0.000020 Wired
#3293 0.000020 BuzzFeed

Venture Capital

#6 0.007438 Initialized Capital
#8 0.011140 Founders Fund
#19 0.004835 Khosla Ventures
#46 0.001750 A16Z
#58 0.000020 Standard Crypto
#89 0.001607 Village Global
#143 0.001120 Sutter Hill Ventures
#233 0.000626 Benchmark Capital
#270 0.000587 My Climate Journey
#413 0.000219 Bessemer
#615 0.000020 Accel
#667 0.000276 Homebrew
#789 0.000107 Index Ventures
#894 0.000085 Y Combinator
#990 0.000020 Sequioa

Culture and Political Economy

#8 0.007479 Social Epistemology
#10 0.000020 Schumacher Circle
#14 0.005328 Progress Studies
#17 0.005058 Rationality
#24 0.003800 The Long Now Foundation
#28 0.003435 Arnold Kling's Fantasy Intellectual Teams
#32 0.002945 Heterodox Academy
#49 0.002203 RadicalxChange
#60 0.000020 Fair Vote
#61 0.001419 Ecomodernists
#68 0.001456 Effective Altruism
#72 0.001764 Works in Progress
#78 0.001958 Bismark Analysis
#124 0.000662 Persuasion Community
#145 0.000955 Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism
#190 0.000404 Harper's Open Letter
#197 0.000020 Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC)
#213 0.000020 Extinction Rebellion
#247 0.000020 Existential Risks
#281 0.000478 Moderate Conservatism
#328 0.000020 Claremont Institute
#345 0.000020 Ecosocialism
#349 0.000244 Degrowth
#354 0.000430 Climate Solutions
#371 0.000020 Sierra Clib
#584 0.000020 350.org
#642 0.000183 Foundation for Individual Rights in Education (FIRE)
#710 0.000128 Populist Libertarians
#777 0.000020 Environmental Defense Fund
#929 0.000179 Environmental Journalists
#1540 0.000046 Anarachists
#3875 0.000014 Black Lives Matter
#4520 0.000014 EFF

Crypto

#12 0.006185 Public Goods Funding
#25 0.003605 Ethereum
#46 0.003967 Crypto Political Economy
#57 0.000020 Non-Fungible Tokens (NFTs)
#64 0.001779 Crypto VC
#127 0.001088 Crypto Infrastructure
#239 0.000020 Polkadot
#257 0.000502 Crypto Investing
#270 0.000530 Crypto Journalists
#287 0.000325 Cosmos
#314 0.000368 Decentralized Finance (DeFi)
#497 0.000271 IDEO Founder Collective
#616 0.000183 Crypto Angels
#1084 0.000078 Decentralized Web
#1208 0.000014 Decentralized Autonomous Organizations (DAOs)

Think Tanks

#12 0.005331 Mercatus Center
#16 0.005418 Niskanen Center
#17 0.003776 Peterson Institute for International Economics
#60 0.001469 American Enterprise Institute
#60 0.001469 National Bureau of Economic Research
#81 0.001100 Brookings
#87 0.000847 Eurasia Group
#91 0.001269 Earth Institute
#96 0.001075 Berggruen Institute
#153 0.000620 Council on Foreign Relations
#182 0.000623 Hoover Institution
#220 0.000619 Columbia SIPA Center for Energy Policy
#371 0.000289 Urban Institute
#405 0.000213 RAND Corporation
#545 0.000020 Belfer Center
#593 0.000244 Center for American Progress
#646 0.000112 Cato Institute
#731 0.000120 Adam Smith Institute
#842 0.000028 Heritage Foundation
#1043 0.000069 Asia Society Policy Institute
#1345 0.000052 Hudson Institute
#2182 0.000020 Atlantic Council

Science

#53 0.002293 EconTwitter
#219 0.000495 Biotech
#305 0.000591 Epidimiology Twitter
#438 0.000352 Epidemiology Journalism
#480 0.000169 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)
#827 0.000020 Philosophy Twitter
#1212 0.000150 ClimateTwitter

system

#2 0.000532 Reality-Based Community
#35 0.000451 Baseline
#115 0.000888 Think Tanks

Informal Community

#728 0.000172 Founders

Software Engineering

#195 0.000020 Rust
#984 0.000014 Zig

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